Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:55:19 -0700 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD, and userfs too. Message-ID: <199907191955.MAA13308@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:44:18 +0100
Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> wrote:
> Lovely. Sounds like a much better way to do the Solaris/Linux (and
> NetBSD?) /etc/nsswitch.conf stuff. On Solaris at least, this is
> implemented using masses of weird shared objects...
The plan for NetBSD is that things will also be handled with dynamic
modules, but those dynamic modules will be glued into a `nscd'[*] (if you
use Solaris, you're familiar with the name :-).
[*] We are planning on not having all of the problems that the Solaris
nscd has, and that people often complain about.
This will allow libc to simply make a call to nscd (or fallback onto
traditional `files' lookup), and nscd will handle all but the `files'
case. This allows system-wide caching, and puts all of the complexity
in one place.
Involving one or more user mode file systems seems like ... the wrong
approach for a name service switch.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
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